12Z Models in Unanimous Agreement! Mid East Coast Hit...

[Anonymous]

You know, I always thought its the GOM or Florida that gets these things, not the safe Mid Atlantic.

All these years I've been asking myself, Why do peeps live in Florida and the GOM Coast with all those hurricanes?

Well, the laugh is on old Jeb now. The GOM only had to contend with TS's and Florida got away scot-free.

And wouldn't cha know it:

The Mid Atlantic ended up with Izzy. Man, I am looking at all the trees I grew up with here for the past 30 years. They will be gone. The ground has been soggy for weeks, so much rain, and now about 9 more inches plus winds and possible tornadoes embedded in the rainbands will fell 'em all. Tornadoes are so bad, but these.........They will be rain-wrapped. I'll never see 'em coming. My neighbor has a 60-foot tall tree in his backyard. The tree already is leaning in on the house. The tree is to the south-southeast of his house. When the cane comes.......Good-bye tree........Good-bye House as the huge tree falls in the storm and effectively cuts the house in two.......Poor Mike Dollarhide. I knew him from High School........


I guess I prayed for too much rain this summer, haughtily assuming that Virginia is safe from 'Canes. Hah Hah I thought.......we will not see a Cane here for the rest of my life. That's why I don't live in Florida or the GOM. I'm safe from a hurricane, they always miss Virginia, the Outer Banks always take 'em on the chin then they recurve out.

Well now I know good old Virginia isn't necessarily so safe.


I gotta remember NOT to write any more of those dumb hurricane stories ever again. Man that thing is coming to pass!!!! It could wipe out Virginia Beach, just like in my story...........Man its scary. I regret it already.


I'll take any tropical storm you got, but.....this monster behemoth of a storm......this Isabel. I just can't believe its gonna come up HERE to MY neck 'o the woods. That thing is a Cat 5 and it's implacable and its coming HERE to Woodbridge.

I am looking out my window at all the trees I've come to know since 1968 when I moved here..........They will all be gone, because of the very soggy ground plus the winds. If we get a tornado, well the trees will be history for sure. If I liked canes, I'd move to Biloxee or some place like that to experience them.

I'm a snow lover for goodness' sake. I want to move to Marquette, MI so I can shovel snow by hand with a shovel for 7 months out of the year.


Well, someone cook me up a fried Crow Buffet. I said the Cane would hit SC. I'm gonna eat Crow........if the hurricane doesn't blow me away first, or a falling tree doesn't crush me, or I don't get swept away in a flood.


As long as we have power, I will submit hurricane reports from here throughout the duration of the storm.

You folks can count on it.


-Jeb

[Steve Cosby]

Here you go.

Has a nice little corridor to go straight north through.

[Thunder44]

Jeb don't panic just yet. I live in NYC and I'm concerned about it too, but it will still be several days before this get to land. Things can change and I doubt this will hurricane will be anymore than a Cat 3 if it did come up into the Mid-Atlantic.

[KeyLargoDave]

Jeb, anyone who is near the eye at landfall is going to wish they weren't.

Sure, hang tight if it's a lot weaker and you feel safe.

But when you're in the crosshairs of a monster, have a plan B, as in Be Ready to Book.

[ameriwx2003]

Thunder... well being hit by a Category 3 hurricane would not be a picnic:):)

[Stormsfury]

Tonight's EURO continues on the Mid-ATL region and continues NW/NNW into Eastern Canada by Day 7.

SF

[Anonymous]

Jeb, anyone who is near the eye at landfall is going to wish they weren't.

Sure, hang tight if it's a lot weaker and you feel safe.

But when you're in the crosshairs of a monster, have a plan B, as in Be Ready to Book.

I'll take that under advisement, KLD. Yeah the car is already gassed up and we're gonna keep it that way through the coming week. I have printed up some useful tips on prepping for a 'cane and we are getting set now.

But if it's time to book, I'll be bookin'.

I guess we are overdue.



-Jeb

[huricanwatcher]

Hi new to board...

[huricanwatcher]

Still recovering from floyd around here, I saw an earlier post on another board from a reliable source that this nasty.. b*tch was headin for New Bern..

please put my fears to sleep......

[Lutrastorm]

Sitting here 4 miles from the coast in Bethany Beach, Delaware....glued to this message board. Gloria was our last significant brush by a hurricane. Here there are SO many second homes, I suspect many, many of them will not even be secured before the storm. Our beaches have suffered extensive erosion for the past week from dearly departed Henri. We're already in trouble even before Issy visits.. Property damage has the potential to be very extensive.

[Steve Cosby]

Our beaches have suffered extensive erosion for the past week from dearly departed Henri.

So, based on your ring-side seat, was Henri a tropical storm or not?

[Lutrastorm]

Our beaches have suffered extensive erosion for the past week from dearly departed Henri.

So, based on your ring-side seat, was Henri a tropical storm or not?

Not... looked and felt alot more like a winter nor'easter only with warm winds. Three days of intermitant rain and consistant winds from the northeast.

[Steve Cosby]

That question is probably going to be debated for quite a while.

[Anonymous]

Our beaches have suffered extensive erosion for the past week from dearly departed Henri.

So, based on your ring-side seat, was Henri a tropical storm or not?

Not... looked and felt alot more like a winter nor'easter only with warm winds. Three days of intermitant rain and consistant winds from the northeast.

Yesterday evening, as the remnants of Henri brought 2.7 inches of rain to Woodbridge, Va, I reflected on the marked similarities to a nor 'easter:

ENE winds at 15 to 25 Gusts to over 30 mph

Waves of heavy rain

But it was fairly mild, 65 degrees. The wind was making it feel more like 45 degrees.


-Jeb